Disaster and fiction : modern Greek fiction and the Asia Minor disaster of 1922 /
Thomas Doulis.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1977.
- x, 313 pages ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 293-304.
1. Ideological, historical, and cultural background -- The birth and death of the Megale Idea -- The culture of Greece before 1922 -- 2. The theme of the Asia Minor disaster -- Narratives of captivity -- The refugee experience -- Sounds of another war -- 3. The enemies of Hellenism: the Greek people themselves -- 4. The generation of the 1930s: the break from the Greek ethnographic tradition and the establishment of the social novel -- 5. The resurrection of the Asia Minor theme -- The fiction of history -- The fiction of myth -- 6. Critics of the fiction of disaster.
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Greek fiction, Modern--History and criticism--20th century Greco-Turkish War, 1921-1922--Literature and the war